Improvement in turbine water-wheels



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131,865. V 'Patented 0c't.1,'1872. F/.G.s. 4

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" 4JAMES J. FAULKNER, OF MGM-INNVILLE, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT lIN TURBINE WATER-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,865, dated October 1, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES J. FAULKNER, of McMinnville, Warren county, Tennessee, have invented an Improvement in Turbines, of which the following is a speciication:

Nctnie and Objects of the lnoention.

This is an improvement in that class of turbines represented in my patent of Y April 9, 1872; and the first part of my improvement consists in a form of gate which combines the advantages of simplicity, cheapness, and efficiency. The second part of my improvements consists in an improved form of Wheel-curb,

e whereby a greater freedom of vent-age is ob-` tained. t

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure lis an axial section 'of a turbine embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a part .Y plan and part horizontal section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a vertical tangential section of a portion of the buckets. Fig. 4 `is an under-side View of the same. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a gate detached. l

My wheel being identicalwith that described` i'n my aforesaid patent except as to the features premised, I will describe only said features.

My sluice-ways A consist in a series of bonnets having theform of a wedge, whose butt end is open to form, when the gatesare opened, an inlet for the water. Each gate consists of a plate, B, hinged by one edge near the apex of the sluice-way, and having an upturned lip,

` C, which, in the depressed position of said gate,

serves to close the mouth (inlet) of the sluiceway, and in the elevated position of said gate serves, by its-peculiar form and angle of pre- Y sentation, to coact with the entering water to automatically close the gate whenever left at liberty. The gates aresimultaneously opened by levers D and chains E, as in my aforesaid patent. Both inner and outer curbs F and Gr of Vmy wheel Hare outward and downward so as to present the form of a truncated conic annulus, as represented. By this means I obtain a perfectly free delivery of the spent water,

so that said water does not in any degree, by its tardy exit, obstruct or impede the wheel in JAS. J. FAULKNER.

Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, J Aims H. LAYMAN. 

